Wired CES 2008: Gibson Robot Guitar

Wired's Chris Hardwick checks out the Gibson Robot Guitar. If you've ever had trouble tuning up your electric, look no further. This one of a kind instrument uses robotics to tune itself!

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Science & Technology

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• Gibson
• electric
• guitar
• robot
• CES
• 2008
• technology
• Wired
• electronics
• tuning
• automatic

[rickyjshiznit]

lol it brings groupies to orgasm

[christopheye]

Kinda cool as a gimmicky gadget but i prefer to wind my strings myself. Just another example of human laziness.

[Alienrocker2010]

Ok cool thought (I'll give them that) but there's something about tuning and doing a restring on your guitar by hand THAT shows that you love your guitar and your music.

So if it takes more time, who ceres people will chill for a sec if they love music.

[pomssi1]

If you suck at guitar you probably aren't buying a 2 500$ Gibson.

[forzainter02]

....bah....what i really need is a microled inlayed neck and a selector for the tonality (or 8\9 tonalities..)...so u click Bb- and your neck will display where to improvise....or just a few pentatonics..or a simple c maj scale or whatever ..so i can play me too and not waste my time looking at silly guitar video or practising...

[RatchetRenegade]

@metalmattm It doesn't to it automagically but it tells you how much to turn the bridge screws

[EMD645E]

Now people won't bother to learn how to tune. Then when their battery runs down they will be up shit creek without a paddle. Well maybe not. I don't think many people today would know what a paddle is or how to use it.

[metalmattm]

If it set its own action and intonation i would be very impressed.

"Robot guitar has sensed you put 13s on this month.. what would you like the instrument's key to be? C Sharp? Bending neck to MURDER ALL STRING BUZZ!

String buzz murdered, action comfortable? Happy playing!"

[hinro]

Wow who knew the guitar world had elitists. Ah well at least these elitists just like every one pack of them will die out.

[lipfishin]

i don't understand why they would make this guitar. is it for lazy people? you should be able to tune to an open tuning with your ear. wow, things are just getting stupid.

by the time it took to chage, most guitarist would have done it in the same time.

whatever. good luck with that!

[Julz333666]

you dumbasses are missing the point, what this gives you is the ability to switch between 7 totally programmable tunings in a few seconds.

brilliant.

any dick that suggests that people are going to buy one of these because they cant tune a guitar is just a fuck head.